GCSE Eduqas Poetry: Excerpt from the Prelude
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- Excerpt from the Prelude: William Wordsworth
- transition from childhood to adulthood
- Presents it as a scary change
- nature has a haunting effect on him
- Epiphany (moment of truth)
- Associated with a particular memory
- "meanwhile"
- discourse maker indicates change
- "meanwhile"
- Liminal imagery used to illustrate threshold
- "twighlight blazed"
- also uses idea of opposites to show childhood on one hand and adulthood on the other
- "the stars, eastward, were sparkling clear, and in the west the orange sky of evening died away"
- Presents it as a scary change
- shows innocence of childhood though description of nature
- Nature allowed him to express his feeling during his difficult childhood and troubled relationship with family.
- He lived in very rural places in different parts of his childhood
- "The Prelude"
- His childhood is seen as an introduction to his life.
- Uses vivid imagery of sounds and sights
- Sounds
- sibilance and onomatopoeia
- Animal imagery to describe the group of children
- "hiss'd along"
- "The Pack"
- "untir'd horse"
- Sounds
- enjambment and caesura to show childhood excitement
- Nature allowed him to express his feeling during his difficult childhood and troubled relationship with family.
- reflection on past life
- an autobiographical style
- He never intended to publish these poems - the were published after he died.
- Wordsworth was a Romantic poet - focused on emotion, reflection, appreciation of beauty.
- "time of rapture"
- religious connotation
- poem in past tense
- realises the power of nature
- an autobiographical style
- transition from childhood to adulthood
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